Galatasaray 3-2 Tottenham: Victor Osimhen scores twice to give the 10-player team its first Europa League loss. Spurs

Victor Osimhen scored twice to give wasteful Galatasaray a 3-2 victory and hand 10-player Tottenham their first Europa League loss.

Notwithstanding Will Lankshear's dismissal in the second half, Spurs managed to escape Istanbul with a decent result despite giving up 28 shots and only managing five of their own.

Yunus Akgun's spectacular volley from the edge of the box slammed into the top-right corner of the goal in the sixth minute, giving Galatasaray a commanding lead. However, Spurs answered with a tap-in from 19-year-old striker Lankshear, who scored the team's first goal after Brennan Johnson squared a cross.

The visitors were exposed at the defence the entire time, though, as Osimhen forced a brilliant save from Forster, had a goal disallowed for offside, and then put his team back ahead with a deft toe-poke after Radu Dragusin threw the ball away.

Osimhen scored his second goal of the first half with a cushioned volley from Dries Mertens' beautiful cross after Forster made another save.

At halftime, Ange Postecoglou substituted Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski for Brennan Johnson and Heung-Min Son, but Spurs continued to deteriorate. Forster dropped a simple cross, Akgun's volley was deflected inches wide, Osimhen missed two chances, and Abdulkerim Bardakci's goalbound shot was stopped.

Lankshear then picked up his second yellow card, just seven minutes after his first, for a silly tackle on the halfway line and then Forster made two more saves.

Although Kulusevski had a chance to equalise in injury time when his long-range attempt rolled wide with keeper Fernando Muslera far out of his goal, Solanke deftly glanced Pedro Porro's low pullback into the net against the flow of play to put Spurs within one goal.

Postecoglou: Lankshear will understand that the defeat was self-inflicted.

Ange Postecoglou, manager of Tottenham, stated:

"I simply thought it was self-harm. We had really easy ways to keep the ball out there. It wasn't that difficult. With ten men, we demonstrated it. All we needed to do was play the weekly style of football and get stronger with the ball.

"The moments that stand out to me were giving the ball away, but perhaps it had something to do with the adjustments I made as well as the setting and ambiance. With ten men, we were simply getting past them, but with eleven men, we lacked that conviction, which was disheartening.

Regarding Will Lankshear: "Will worked hard for the team and took his goal well. He would have learnt a lot today because he hasn't played senior football much. He will learn from the red card, even though his momentary overzeal in giving out a foul was a little excessive.